UNESCO has allowed the charade known as the UNESCO-Obiang prize to go on long enough. It distracts the organization from its core mission and threatens to tarnish both its reputation and credibility. In the coming months, let’s hope that the delegates on UNESCO’s executive board heed Ms. Bokova’s advice and find the courage (and common...

http://www.africareview.com/Opinion/Obiang+prize+to+Unesco+sullies+UN+systems/-/979188/1247796/-/y6bro2z/-/index.html Democracy is complex, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Secretary of State Madeline Albright said during a conversation I facilitated at a summit on human rights at the Ford Foundation. Having spent the last 40-odd years of my professional life reporting on long-standing democracies, as well as some of those taking their first...